maineman
Banned
And what a theological conundrum it all creates! Despite the free will that Judaism espouses, the lives of all the forebearers of all the rabbis from 800 years in the future mentioned in the Talmud would all have to be pre-ordained. Everyone's spouses would already be picked out, centuries in advance. Their kid's genders and names all chosen ahead of time... For centuries...leading up to the moment when their progeny would train to become a rabbi and would expound on some minor aspect of the Torah, and that rabbi would write down exactly what God predicted to Moses that he would write... Because, according to DY, our own Talmudic acholar, God told the entire Talmud to Moses on Mt. Sinai, word for word. Mind bending, to say the least.